Article: Web tool launched to improve life expectancy in disadvantaged areas.

Article: Could eliminating malaria significantly extend life ...
Population Briefs;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... tuberculosis, is a major public health challenge in the poorest ... mortality could be reduced and life expectancy increased if malaria were ... analysis. The data showed that life expectancy at birth in 1995 was 48 ... malaria were eliminated, life expectancy at birth would ...

Article: PUBLIC HEALTH: EU ACCESSION PUSHES UP LIFE ...
European Report;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... radical than the policies introduced by the other EU Member States. The authors believe a third of the recent increase in life expectancy in the country (+4 years for men and +3 years for women) can be attributed to a cut in smoking. Laszlo Gulacsi emphasises ...

Article: Prescriptions for a new year.(public health and ...
U.S. News & World Report;  January 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... 49th birthday; the average life expectancy for Americans was 48 years ... largely to the triumph of public-health interventions: sanitation ... spaces. The very success of public-health interventions has resulted ... should not. For example, public-health interventions ...

Article: Illiterate and poor in Brazil have lower life ...
Health & Medicine Week;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... rate, and life expectancy in Brazil ... Journal of Public Health. The study ... shortest life expectancy, demonstrating ... country. "Public health is influenced ... rate, and life expectancy in Brazil. Am J Public Health, 2003 ...

Article: Big Improvement Recorded in Life Expectancy in New ...
Xinhua News Agency;  February 12, 2002 ;     341 words ... ... a new Zealandmale's life expectancy is on average 76 years ... shown the biggest jump in life expectancy and are now ranked 10th ... increase in New Zealanders' life expectancy could be attributed to public health initiatives, screening ...

Article: Obesity epidemic will dramatically decrease life ...
The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  March 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... declines in life expectancy," said S. Jay Olshansky, a public-health professor at ... Americans' life expectancy rising. A ... obesity is a public health disaster ... that influence life expectancy." He said ...

Article: Drugs and Life Expectancy.(research indicates that ...
The Futurist;  November 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... had no effect on life expectancy. The authors speculate ... a decline in the life-expectancy returns on additional expenditures. Basic public-health measures, such as ... greatest effect on life expectancy, the authors note ...